As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
WILL DURANTI am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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